Guest artist series

Pirate Bay is a character piece done for an in-class demo at Brainstorm School, a private learning institution focused on concept art, design and illustration in Burbank, CA. Completed for the Design with Color & Light course, a costumed model under artistic lighting was used to capture a single reference photograph during the class, then completed at home.

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Star Knight is the result of a simple character exploration exercise. Using the five-pointed star as a baseline for the character's design language, the resulting design is conceptualized as a high-ranking royal soldier who serves directly under a king's command.

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The Cloud Gate depicts a vibrant desert environment with a secret hidden deep in the rock. Shrouded by wispy white clouds and the depths of the red canyon is a gateway to other dimensions,waiting to be discovered. Will you venture forth to unlock it?

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P77 Spaceship is a concept sketch of a transport cruiser pulling into a loading dock after a planet side scouting mission. Its sleek but utilitarian design is a combat workhorse in Deschambault's dystopian sci-fi universe, Project 77.

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Hidden is a personal piece that plays to the personal strengths of the artist. Highlighting his remarkable aptitude for value and structure, it focuses on broad, easily distinguished shapes and forms while pushing the anatomy of his subject to create a powerful visual contrast -and a hint of the unexpected.

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The dark and devious Countess Báthory is inspired byElizabeth Báthory, a real-life Hungarian noblewoman whose killing spree in the1600's led Guinness World Records to name her the world's most prolific femalemurderer. Legends of the Blood Countess (as she came to be known) are downrightchilling: she was said to have bathed in virgins' blood to preserve her youth.This fantastic take on Báthory plays up her alleged vampiric tendencies,resulting in one sultry, diabolical dame.

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In the future, free access to education, science, and art has been restrained. But high above the mountains in the West, a grand city of wisdom and knowledge sits at the peak. Here, architects, scientists and thinkers of all kinds are free to learn, investigate and create. These scholars of the future keep their paradise safe by limiting access to the city to a single route: the futuristic "bubble trains" made possible by the advanced technology developed within the city.

It was probably an old construction building once, but long since has been used as housing in this very cold, Antarctic environment. At the end of the day, the men eagerly return to the comforts of home after a hard day’s work.

The real-life mountain town of Prapic in the French Alps serves as inspiration for the idyllic piece, Mountain Above the Valley. Artist Quentin Regnes drew on fond memories he had of the area – which he often visited as a child – and says the scene is based on a line from a ballad about the region: come feel the pure fresh air in the wild Alps!

Inspired by a trip to the Pacific Northwest, Orb explores ideas for a personal project about the discovery and exploration of lost civilizations. After following the winding pathways of an ancient trail, a lone wanderer has unearthed an orb of unknown origin. A marvelous, unexpected sight to behold, sure. But what is its purpose? And where are its creators?